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| Ally Christmas, Metadreaming, 2018 |
The Georgia Museum of Art will soon host the
annual Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates exit show. The exhibition will
display the creative works of 16 students slated to graduate from the Lamar
Dodd School of the Art in May. This week, we continue to spotlight a few of
these unique artists with information on Ally Christmas.
Christmas hails
from the suburbs of Washington, D.C., where her artistic journey began during
high school. She went on to study analog photography during her undergraduate years
at the University of Virginia. After graduation, Christmas spent the following
year working on her own pieces and mentoring other students.
She found herself
intrigued by the University of Georgia’s interdisciplinary master of fine arts program
and soon took the plunge into the American South. “The southern culture here is
just so much more welcoming,” she says of her experience in Athens, a place she
has come to be inspired by and love.
Christmas’
choices of medium and style have continued to evolve in this open environment.
Analog photography has given way to video and digital imagery, which she is
excited to present at the MFA exit show. Christmas’ contributions to the show
will be a central video piece accompanied by digitally created imagery. Through
these works, she conveys “the return of the ‘real’ through the glitches or
errors in a work of art.”
Christmas hopes
viewers will find themselves in the digital sphere through her work. The layers
crossed to enter this mindset, she says, will cause the audience to consider
what connects them to the world within the screen.
Whether these
layers are of the self, multiple selves or both is a question Christmas has
explored throughout her MFA. Her video and digital imagery pieces will lead the
audience deep within her question and, perhaps, to its answer. The question may
be personal, but it will easily inspire the viewer to wander a similar path.
To see Christmas’
work, along with that of all the other MFA candidates, you can visit the exit show, on view April 7 – May 20, 2018.
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Savannah
Guenthner
Intern,
Department of Communications
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